Craig Hennessey's Critical Paper

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January 29 — folder and parent signature due

Did you show the teacher your two-pocket folder with three-ring center? (5 pts.)
YES


Did you show the teacher your Parent Signature? (5 pts.)
YES



January 30 — note cards due

Did you show the teacher your one pack of 3x5 notecards? (5 pts.)
YES


Did you buy your own copy of The Catcher in the Rye to mark up? (optional)
YES
NO



January 31 — select a topic

View a list of potential paper topics:

Choose a topic for your paper and type it here:
(5 points)
Schools help to alienate youth.

February 4 — thesis due

Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel.
For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here.
Write your thesis here:
(5 points)

Holden believes that school alienates youth, but actully the opposite is true. school and the actuvities it provides help to expand a child horizon, they can make friends, and teaches them responsibality for there actions.



February 5 — identify three main body topics

Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis.
You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper.
Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers.
THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.

Please enter (at least) three main body topics here:
(5 points)

1) expanding a childes horizon
2)Teachs them responsability and life lessons
3) gives them friends

February 6 — introductory paragraph due

Your intro paragrpah tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis.
Type (or link to) your Introductory Paragraph here:
(10 points)

Within the story of The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, the main charecter Holden Caulfield is not a good student. he has been kicked out of multpile schools and is in the process of getting kicked out of another when the story begins. he is under the belief that school is bad for the youth and it ruines the childhood of adlinces, but the oppest is true. school provieds kids with a safe havion. apart from the curriculum school also teachs a child resposibilty, and other life lessons. it expandes a childs horizons and can help make dreams become a reliaty. as children grow up they need support from there peirs and need good friends, school gives them an opprotunity to make those friends. Holden believes that school alienates youth, but actully the oppest is true. school and the actuvities it provides help to expand a child horizon, they can make friends, and teaches them responsibality for there actions.


February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due

You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis.
List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here:
(5 points)

I showed you them
there on my H:

NOTE: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.


February 8 — secondary source quotes

Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis.
YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE.
List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here:
(5 points)

1) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

2) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

3) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

4) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

5) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

6) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

7) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

8) QUOTE:
TITLE & PAGE:
AUTHOR:
SUBTOPIC:

(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)


February 11 — primary source quotes

Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11
List them here:
(5 points)

1) QUOTE:"They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey then they do at any other school.
PAGE NUMBER:2
SUBTOPIC: put in para #1

2) QUOTE: "It was the last game of the year, and you were suupposed to commit suicide or something if they didn't win.
PAGE NUMBER:2
SUBTOPIC: #1 ( shows that he doesn't fit in)

3) QUOTE: "I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway. It wasn't all my fault."
PAGE NUMBER:3
SUBTOPIC: # 2 (he isn't getting along with others)

4) QUOTE: "I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building. They were nice guys, esecially Tichener."
PAGE NUMBER:4
SUBTOPIC: # 2 (1 example where he is social, but he never calls these guys again)

5) QUOTE: ""Sleep tight you morons!" I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor."
PAGE NUMBER:52
SUBTOPIC: #1 or 2

6) QUOTE: "Oh . . . well,about life being a game and all. And how you should play it according to the rules. He was pretty nice about it."
PAGE NUMBER:8
SUBTOPIC: # 1 (phony thing to say; doesn't want to conform)

7) QUOTE: " "Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure I do." I thought about it for a minute. "But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess." "
PAGE NUMBER:14
SUBTOPIC: place anywhere to show that he is apathetic about academics--not school's fault

8) QUOTE:"I was probally the only normal bastard in the whole place"
PAGE NUMBER:62
SUBTOPIC:#1 (the fault is everyone else)

9) QUOTE:"But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways."
PAGE NUMBER:38
SUBTOPIC:2

10) QUOTE:"All the visitors could get in their cars and turn on their radios and all and then go someplace nice for dinner- everybody except Allie
PAGE NUMBER:156
SUBTOPIC:2

(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)


February 12 — outline your main body

Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper.
In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.

If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).

Please post (or link to) a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:
(5 points)



February 13 — first draft of main body

Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.

Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a new wiki page.
Ask at least three of your classmates to read your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link).
Students will be expected to read each other's drafts and leave comments in the discussion board.
(10 points)



February 14 — peer review

List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:
(5 points)

1)
2)
3)

At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.

February 19 — final rough draft

Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher.
(20 points)


February 21 — rough draft of conclusion paragraph

Please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(5 points)



February 22 — final draft of conclusion paragraph

Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today.
Also, please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(10 points)


February 25 — Works Cited Page due

Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today!
Link to the Word document of your works cited page here:
(20 points)



February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!

Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including:
a) note cards
b) outline of body
c) all rough drafts
d) completed checklist, signed
e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.)
f) final works cited / references page

(100 points)


March 5 — TURN IT IN (dot com)

Today is the final day for MANDATORY submission of your final critical paper to www.turnitin.com

FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM WILL RESULT IN A ZERO ON YOUR PAPER!


Hooray!! You're done!

Now let's have some fun making our Julius Caesar movie!